U.S. politics and the Middle East: Polarization and regional stability (Shibley Telhami, Sarah Yerkes, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/us-politics-and-the-middle-east/

Cuba’s economic future (Adrianna Pita, Richard E. Feinberg, Ted Piccone, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/cubas-economic-future/

Priorities for the Trump administration: Mayors speak on trade, immigration, and economic opportunity (Amy Liu, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/priorities-for-the-trump-administration-mayors-speak-on-trade-immigration-and-economic-opportunity/

Urban governance in the 21st century: Innovating solutions (Kemal Derviş, Bruce Katz, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/urban-governance-in-the-21st-century-innovating-solutions/

Noncognitive skills in education: What we know and why they matter (Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/noncognitive-skills-in-education-what-we-know-and-why-they-matter/

India on the international stage (Dhruva Jaishankar, Tanvi Madan, Shivshankar Menon, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

Guest interviewer Tanvi Madan, fellow and director of the India Project in Foreign Policy, Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, distinguished fellow in Foreign Policy, and Dhruva Jaishankar, fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings India, examine India’s foreign policy, particularly toward the U.S. and China, as well as its counter-terrorism approach in the wake of a cross-border attack on an Indian military position in Kashmir.

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/india-on-the-international-stage/

Political gridlock and the U.S. economy (William A. Galston, Alice M. Rivlin, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

Alice Rivlin, senior fellow in Economic Studies and the Center for Health Policy, and William Galston, senior fellow in Governance Studies, discuss the importance of bipartisanship in the United States and how current party divisions are detrimental to the economy.

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/political-gridlock-and-the-u-s-economy/

Hong Kong’s elections: Testing democratic reform in China (Richard C. Bush, Cheng Li, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/hong-kongs-elections-testing-democratic-reform-in-china/

Democracy in Turkey: Before and after the coup (Kemal Kirişci, Ted Piccone, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/democracy-in-turkey-before-and-after-the-coup/

Venezuela in Crisis (Dany Bahar, Adrianna Pita, Harold Trinkunas, Brookings)

"Poverty, which was once the flagship of the Bolivarian revolution, is back to pre-Chavez levels. These policies were unsustainable – it was all based on subsidies based on the high price of oil, and now the government is maybe not unwilling, but definitely unable to protect the Venezuelan poor." - Dany Bahar

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/07/venezuela

Civil wars and U.S. engagement in the Middle East (Shadi Hamid, Adrianna Pita, Kenneth M. Pollack, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/07/civil-war-middle-east-isis

College education and student debt: Evaluating the investment (Beth Akers, Adrianna Pita, Jonathan Rothwell, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/06/college-education-and-student-debt

Presence and voice: Women in foreign policy (Adrianna Pita, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Sarah Yerkes, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/06/presence-and-voice-women-in-foreign-policy

Keeping the U.S. Fiscal Ship afloat (Louise Sheiner, David Wessel, Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

"We sought out to make this game because we think that the national debt is an important issue that budget experts talk about all the time but it is very hard for the general public to really understand, so we thought to do it in a way that is more entertaining and more fun.”— Louise Sheiner

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/05/keeping-us-fiscal-ship-afloat

The rise of the right: Right-wing populism in the U.S. and Europe (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Adrianna Pita, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings)

“I locate the common roots of the rise of right-wing populism in globalization and technological change. You have a lot of people in Europe and the United States displaced, in the sense that they had decent standards of living and could count on that happening for their children...but that is in danger now.” --  E.J. Dionne, Jr.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/04/rise-of-the-right